indigenous music
Traditional tribal sounds
Indigenous music refers to the traditional musical practices of a region's original inhabitants—songs, instruments, and styles developed before outside cultural contact or colonization.
The term often carries political weight, emphasizing authenticity and cultural survival: The festival showcased indigenous music from tribes across the Amazon basin.
Indigenous music may blend with contemporary genres while maintaining traditional elements.
- throat singingVocal technique producing simultaneous pitches
- ethnomusicologyMusic studied culturally
- Amazonian tribesIndigenous groups of South American jungle
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- song linesAboriginal pathways through landscape
ceremony · ceremonial dance · chanting · native tongue · percussion · Inuit communities · didgeridoo · migration stories · spirit world · spirituality · drumming · talking drum · powwow · heritage preservation · seasonal cycles · rain dance · call-and-response · field recordings
- African MusicAfrobeat, highlife, afrobeat, Afro-pop, African rhythms
- Brazilian Musicsamba, bossa nova, axe, maracatu, Carmen Miranda
- Filipino Musictinikling, Wolfgang, Sandwich, Mayonnaise, religious hymns
- Mexican Musicmariachi, ranchera, norteno, corrido, regional Mexican
- world musicreggae, samba, bossa nova, flamenco, fado
- Ecuadorian Musicbomba, marimba, chicha